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Fiction

Iron Gustay. By Hans Fallada. Translated from the German b% Philip Owens. (Putnam. 8s. 6d.) THE simplest thing to say about any new work of fiction whirl: has made its......

Had Professor Robertson Flourished A Century Ago,...

have been called the Dismal Science. As expound,.1 by him, it is a tongue-twisting, headaching, brain-racking science but emphatically not dismal. To venture on this collection......

The Economics Of Agriculture. By Ruth Cohen. (nisbet. 5s....

Two pitfalls lurk for the undoing of writers on the economics of agriculture—or, indeed, on those of any other particular brand of human activity: on the one hand the lapse into......

Shorter Notices

This is England! Compiled and Edited by C. G. Holme. (Studio. 15s). THE object of this book is to describe England to the foreigner and the interested native in pictorial terms.......